Images: The British Movement After 1783

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / Photographs and Prints Division

ID# 1245625

The Benevolent Effects of Abolition

Early abolitionist activity in Britain was channeled through the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade organized in May 1787. This lithograph, published in Great Britain by abolitionists in June 1792 depicts, in a paternalistic manner, the effects of the abolition of the slave trade.